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On this photograph launched by Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP), Cambodian Protection Minister Tea Seiha, left, stands with Thai Protection Minister Natthaphon Narkphanit, proper, on the Basic Border Committee Assembly in Chanthaburi Province, Thailand Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025.
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BANGKOK — Thailand and Cambodia on Saturday signed a ceasefire settlement to finish weeks of armed fight alongside their border over competing claims to territory. It took impact at midday native time.
Along with ending combating, the settlement requires no additional navy actions by both aspect and no violations of both aspect’s airspace for navy functions.
Solely Thailand employed airstrikes within the combating, hitting websites in Cambodia as lately as Saturday morning, in response to the Cambodian protection ministry.
The deal additionally requires Thailand, after the ceasefire has held for 72 hours, to repatriate 18 Cambodian troopers it has held as prisoners since earlier combating in July. Their launch has been a serious demand of the Cambodian aspect.
The settlement was signed by the 2 international locations’ protection ministers, Cambodia’s Tea Seiha and Thailand’s Nattaphon Narkphanit, at a checkpoint on their border after lower-level talks by navy officers met for 3 days as a part of the already-established Basic Border Committee.
The settlement declares that the 2 sides are dedicated to an earlier ceasefire that ended 5 days of combating in July and follow-up agreements, and contains commitments to 16 de-escalation measures.
The unique July ceasefire was brokered by Malaysia and pushed by by stress from U.S. President Donald Trump, who threatened to withhold commerce privileges until Thailand and Cambodia agreed. It was formalized in additional element in October at a regional assembly in Malaysia that Trump attended.
The Thai navy fires artillery in the direction of Cambodia, Friday, Dec. 26, 2025, seen from Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province.
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Regardless of these offers, the 2 international locations carried on a bitter propaganda warfare and minor cross-border violence continued, escalating in early December to widespread heavy combating.
Thailand has misplaced 26 troopers and one civilian as a direct results of the fight since Dec. 7, in response to officers. Thailand has additionally reported 44 civilian deaths from collateral results of the state of affairs.
Cambodia hasn’t issued an official determine on navy casualties, however says that 30 civilians have been killed and 90 injured. Lots of of 1000’s of individuals have been evacuated from affected areas on either side of the border.
All sides blamed the opposite for initiating the combating and claimed to be performing in self-defense.
The settlement additionally calls on either side to stick to worldwide agreements towards deploying land mines, a serious concern of Thailand. Thai troopers alongside the border have been wounded in at the very least 9 incidents this yr by what they mentioned had been newly planted Cambodian mines. Cambodia says the mines had been left over from many years of civil warfare that ended within the late Nineteen Nineties.
One other clause says the 2 sides “comply with chorus from disseminating false info or pretend information.”
The settlement additionally says beforehand established measures to demarcate the border can be resumed and the 2 sides additionally comply with cooperate on an effort to suppress transnational crimes.
That’s primarily a reference to on-line scams perpetrated by organized crime which have bilked victims around the globe of billions of {dollars} every year. Cambodia is a middle for such prison enterprises.
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